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"Shakespeare's Dramatic Transactions" uses conventions of performance criticism--staging and theatrical presentation--to analyze seven major Shakespearean tragedies: "Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II, " and "Richard III. "As scholars and readers increasingly question the theoretical models used to describe the concepts of "mimesis" and "representation," this book describes how the actor's stage presentation affects the actor's representational role and the ways in which viewers experience Shakespearean tragedy.
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If among the many truths of Giambattista Vico's New Science there is one that is deepest, it is the truth that language, mind, and society are but three modes of a common reality. In Vico's term, that reality is the monde civile, the world of man. It is a world of many guises and faces. If reflected in a mirror, those faces would reveal an image of the full array of contemporary arts and sciences, all the disciplines of learning and technique by which, so Vico judged, humanity attains its perfection. Humanity in its perfection, however, is so rare a moment, so delicate and...